TT Day 2 - 6/23/15

Today was half single ball and half multiball. Less people showed up than day 1 - roughly 7 people split into 2 coaches/tables. I've improved on my things from last week although unfortunately without practice due to working on hospice training and med school apps. and anime/manga.

Began with single ball drills similarly to last week. Coming in, I focused on last weeks points of staying closer to the table and hitting in front of my body.
1) FH

2) BH - need to stay low and not stand up vertically after certain hits.

3) FH/BH - make sure to rotate on fh and not to stay with weight forward. Make sure to add spin on the fh to get it over.

4) serve into short chop into fh backspin loop into bh, fh on bh side, fh cross table. I think my longest was getting 2.5 rounds in. I'd like to be able to do it 5 rounds by end of summer. I need to make sure to take my backspin loops earlier instead of getting into the habit of spinning them up.

Notes: Something about snapping (wrist? or elbow) on fh hit to add spin.


Next came multi-ball stuff. Overall, it was much more complicated than what I was used to and I got to learn some things.

1) bh chop to short right, ball gets chopped long to my fh, loop the backspin, fh topspin in midde, fh in fh side, bh down the line to finish. - Same as above, I need to take my backspin loops earlier at the peak. Rotate body slightly left for bh down the line shots instead of only changing the racket angle with my wrist.

2) backhand flick to bh, bh topspin to right corner, bh topspin to left corner, fh smash to finish. - Make sure to get enough brush on fh smash to get on table. This is my first time trying to bh flick with this technique - bending my wrist far enough that the racket faces me (similar to the pro videos) and rotating my wrist and elbow while keeping elbow in place.

3) fh chop in my short right corner, bh loop on my bh, fh smash on my fh side. Although this is probably the easiest of the drills, I had the most trouble with this at several points - transitioning from fh short chop to backhand loop. And again having troubles not getting enough brush on fh smash.


Summary:
To work on - fh smash, fh to bh loop transition, new short bh flick technique.
Remember - stay on same plane and rotate horizontally.
Random thought before I sleep - returning no spin serve with a side spin return instead of my typical weak chop or weak topspin.